Background
OFFICER, Lawrence Howard was born in 1940 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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OFFICER, Lawrence Howard was born in 1940 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bachelor of Arts (Economy and Political Science) McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1960. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Harvard University, 1962, 1965.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1965-1970. Consultant, International Monetary Fund 1975. Visiting Professor of Economics, Graduate School Business, University Chicago, since 1980.
Professor of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America.
Association Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics,
, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1966-1971. Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Economics, 19711.
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My first published work dealt with theoretical issues in the foreign exchange market and in peak-load pricing. Then I turned to a wide variety of problems, including reciprocity in Canada-United States 19th-century trade, labour force participation, importdemand functions, large scale econometric model building, and various aspects of the international monetary system. Foreign a while, the issue of discrimination in oceanic shipping rates fascinated medical
Subsequently, with sidelines such as the demand for international liquidity and operations of the International Monetary Fund, my principal interest became purchasing power parity. (Foreign some time, people would ask me: ‘How many PPPs did you fit today?’) Fortunately, a general disenchantment with purchasing power parity has arisen — although I dare say the virtues of purchasing power parity will be ‘rediscovered’ in the future, say, the 21st century, as it has been several times in the past — and I was able to turn to another topic in good conscience.
I think economic history is ‘where it’s at’ — the present being so confusing, one must learn from the past — and the dollar-sterling foreign exchange market in the 19th century has occupied my most
recent attention. In summary, apart from purchasing power parity, my writings cover so many fields that some might say I know ‘nothing about everything’.
Some ne’er-do-wells might reverse that remark to ‘everything about nothing’ and apply it to my knowledge of purchasing power parities (these people, of course, will not have read Gustav Cassel’s works in the original).